Making Games with Game Maker

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Making Games with Game Maker

• Project 1
• Due dates
• Sunday, August 30th, by 1159pm
• Tuesday, September 2nd, by 1159pm
• Thursday, September 4th, by 1159pm

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Motivation

• Projects 2-4 done in Game Maker
• Project 1 Designed to get you "up to speed" with
  Game Maker
• Familiar with adding Art (sound and sprites) and
  Programming (iconic programming)
• Learn capabilities to inform your own game design

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Project 1 Details

• Series of 3 assignments
• For each
• Complete Tutorial
• Extend in some individual way
• Add art
• Add programming
• About "10" addition
• Youll let us know what

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Tutorials

• Clown (from Game Maker pages)
• Game maker basics (sprites, objects, events)
• Pong (custom)
• Game from scratch (assumes Clown is done)
• Maze or Shooter or Scroller (from Game Maker
  pages)
• Your choice (could do all 3! But turn in only 1)
• More advanced Game Maker actions

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Grading

• Guidelines on Web page
• Roughly
• ½ for doing tutorial
• ½ for customization
• README (detailing customization) will be worth
  some points!

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Hints

• Stay on top of the assignments
• One due every two days
• Need to do these to be ready for rest of projects
• Start early
• This will uncover any problems with your account
• Or Game Maker
• Or your ability to download and extract and read
  files
• Etc.
• Think ahead
• Think about what kind of game you might like to
  make (thats Project 2)
• Consider what you see in Game Maker